Show C1 Salt Lake June 26 Dear Hal The net loss sustained by Jay 7 > jgers on the four weeks of the Wright Huntington engagement is now said to be an even J2000 Jay paid for his experience like a little man and Mr Huntington has moved on to the next town while the house has been handed over to the new lessee Mr McGarvle of carnival fame who will at once renovate and rechristen it with appropriate appro-priate ceremonies designed to exorcise the hoodooing influences which have so long hung about it Prior to shaking the dust of Zion from their feet Mr Huntington and one of his players a very estimable gentleman Mr King by name made The Herald a friendly call and registered reg-istered a vigorous > kick at the manner man-ner in which the paper conducted its I dramatic department Mr King was specially vicious in his remarks which ae transmitted to paper and which I the editor in turn transmitted to the critic Mr Kig in his communication communica-tion took the ground that the financial failure of the Huntington season was almost entirely due to The Herald and that if different reports of the Huntington I Hunting-ton performances had been written by The Herald critic Messrs Rogers and Hatch would not now be mourning the loss of their 2000 That of course is the veriest nonsense While willing to concede that The Herald is able to doa do-a good deal towards making or marring the success of a dramatic venture It is too much to say that it could have saved the Huntington season even if It had piled praises mountain high on plays and players Actors of the grade of Mr King have totally erroneous I I idea of the duties and functions of a I dramatic critic They think his sole I uuty is to attend the Monday night openings write something pleasant in a milk and watery fashion and go home To be told that a critic should carry about with him such things as opinions and have the courage to express ex-press them would come to them with all the force of a shock To be old that critics are paid to do their best just as actors are would sound incredible in-credible to their ears To learn that the honest critic even while tempering justice with mercy holds that the truth is the first and foremost of all considerations regardless of whom or what it affects would st > rre slr King and his class as being stuff and nonsense non-sense They do not possess the art of putting themselves in his place If they did they would know that honesty and impartiality are the prime essentials essen-tials in the critics trade and that without them he could not hold his position a moment The modern journal jour-nal the one Mr King has not the pleasure of knowing is looked to by the public to give the facts about the events it reviews whether they be queens jubilees or the performances of play actors and a sorry day it is for any journal when the public gets to doubting the reliability of those facts The Herald dramatic writer seeks to serve the public by telling the simple truth about plays players and dramatic events regardless of the theatrical roof tha welters them of whose pocket is attested or of what histrionic corns arp trod on Being only human he doubtless has his fallible i falli-ble moments but whether he does his I I r I ° 4 duty to the public the public is much better able to judge than Mr King MARGE DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Among all the attractions and entertainments enter-tainments that jubilee week will bring I none will be more Interesting to a large class of people than the pioneer I theatricals which are to be brought out three nights at the theatre under I the direction of the pioneer Thespians I Phil Margetts and John Si Lindsey Years ago before many of those who now make up the audiences of the Salt Lake theatre had seen the light Messrs Margetts and Lindsey were delighting I j audiences in the historic old house and I the feature of the coming entertainments i nte r mhT I ments will be revivals of this dramas I of those days On two nights Tuesday I July 0 and Friday July 23 The Charcoal Char-coal Burners and Family Jars will be the double bill For Wednesday evening the 21st A Wonderful Woman I Wom-an and Toodles will be brought out In addition to Messrs Margetts and I LmUsey such notable oldtimers as H E Bowring J E Evans ll A Thompson I Thomp-son Mrs Maggie Thomas Romney Mrs Ruth Jones Squires and others will appear while Dellie Clawson Cummings Cum-mings who came upon the stage at a I later era ra daughter Miss Ardelle I Cummings and Miss Alice Clawson < will lend their aid The oldfashioned Interlude will again be brought into play and will consist of Lockes famous I music of Macbeth introducing the j witches and the cauldron scene the i I whole chorus being under the direction i i of Professor C J Thomas who wielded I I I the baton over the orchestra in the I days when Messrs Margetts and Llnd sey were prominent figures on the I stage One of the three nights lIt be I j pioneer night when the badges of the I pioneers will admit them to the house I I free of charge Mr Lindsey will appear in the characters I I char-acters he sustained with success 30 years back and Margetts and Bowring I I will delight the oldtimers in the farcical far-cical roles over which our fathers and I mothers screamed 35 years ago I I et er0da Speaking of pioneer day theatricals the following I excerpt from the last j gePiJ hr i I number of the New York Mirror will I be amusing reading to theatre goers and theatrical business managers of I today That genial and breezy genius Mart I Hanley made one of a group of friends the other day who were indulging in reminiscences The talk drifted to experiences ex-periences in aWe tc and when the I subject of Salt Lake City was introduced intro-duced Mart took the floor He played I in the Mormon city 27 years ago In a company made up almost exclusively II of Brigham Youngs followers He knew the prophet well and met most of his wives After telling of the numerous I invitations he received to become a Mormon and the complimentary remarks re-marks to the effect that he would make a fine one and relating how when he first went to the city he had at last found a Catholic church with a congregation con-gregation of six persons and a priest who had been an actor and had played with him in Montreal he described a queer credit system which prevailed in the Salt Lake City theatre In those days hI had an interest in the show said I Mart but when the first nights receipts re-ceipts were counted there was little or no money visible In its place was a pile of paper big enough to fill a wastebasket waste-basket They looked like free passes Annoyed is a very weak word to describe de-scribe my feelings but I put a button on my futh and screwed It tight and waited developments If I had talked and given them a line on what I1 thought I would have made a bad break because when I came to get my share of the proceeds I was paid in good gold and silver and greenbacks I found that there was plenty of money in the house after all I learned that the bits of paper that seemed to represent rep-resent almost the whole receipts were a species of promissory notes which were regarded as good as gold so close and confidential were the relations of the Mormons to each other li those days They had a habit of going to the theatre often and settling by the month or week or whenever It suited their convenience i 1 < JOn j-On Thursday evening the theatre will doubtless be filled from the stage to the third gallery by admirers of Hon William J Bryan who is announced to appear there one night only None of the advance printing on the streets gives the title of the lecture the only statement in addition to the famous gentlemans name being the brief one that Mr Bryan will divide half the proceeds of his lecture with the bi metallic cause If he were going to do nothing more than stand up to be gazed at the moderate price asked would be cheerfully paid by hundreds of Salt Lake citizens who gave him their votes but as he will give his views on the burning issues of the day the only question about his visit is whether the house will hold the throngs that will rally The lecture begins at 830 ono Fru Elizabeth Riis the Danish actress act-ress from Copenhagen will give an entertainment in this city on Thursday evening July S Reports from the east are highly flattering t < 3 > Miss Helen Lowell the actress who came here from New York to take the place of leading lady with the Wrigit Huntington summer company at Butte was not able to leave with the others to fill her engagement She has been quite ill at the Templeton hotel since her arrival I ar-rival and Mr Huntington seeing that i she would be unable to go north with the company released her from her engagement en-gagement and she will go back home during the coming week Mr Huntington I Hunting-ton offered the position of leading lady to Ada Dwyer Russell but the two could not agree as to terms It is supposed therefore that pretty Miss Henry the soubrette will be cast for the leading parts I 000 I Manager Burton of the Salt Lake theater yesterday signed a large number num-ber of contracts booking some important impor-tant theatrical organizations for the 97 andSS season Salt Lakers will be I pleased to learn that among the number I num-ber was the famous Bosttmlans so that we shall once more have the pleasure pleas-ure ef hearing Robin Hood and probably the new operas which they have recently added to their repertoire Rob for and The Serenade oar The Social Amusement company and the Sunday school of the Twentyfirst ward will give a complimentary benefit on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to five rouns men who are about to leave on missions to the southern states Their names are F M Michel sen David A Affleck Rulon M Owen Oliver S Walsh and William B Hall I and the entertainment will consist cf the comedlette The Rough Diamond i and Megs Diversion Tnose who will I I appear are Victor Ensign W L Owen i George H Wallace C E CHssold An nie Owen Berenice Starler W D i Owen F M Michelsen John D Owen j I Josiah Burrows R G Collett Gertie i Read Alice Calder and Anne Wallace Wal-lace C s > < 3 > 0 A chatty writer In the San Francisco I Examiner has the following bit of gossip i gos-sip in relation to Mr Hackett and Miss I Mannering To his closing question we answer nay but we give the gossip for what it is worth Mr rronman so the matinee girls say has a love of a leading man in James K Hackett i TsH i 1 Mr kddltiOnal fervor in his tender lines when they were addressed i ad-dressed to Miss Mannering and Miss i i Mannering listened to them with responsive re-sponsive softness And so despite I Manager Frohmans stringent rules restraining re-straining one member of the Lyceum company from falling In love with another an-other member of the Lyceum company or becoming engaged to or marrying such memtoer James K Hackett and I Mary Mannering fell headlong in love I I plighted their troth and are going to get married and live happily ever afterward after-ward Just as soon as ever they can I which maynap will make their footlight I foot-light love scenes all the more interesting interest-ing to the sentimental young and reminiscent aged Mary Mannerlngs eastern admirers sar that she is entitled to the golden apple that Maxine Elliott Is supposed to possess In joyous triumph They say she Is vastly more lovely than the I American beauty Maxine that big dashing explosive beauty of flesh and blood with her wonderful coloring and midnight hair and the brimming exuberance ex-uberance that proves her food and sleep nourish her well What do you say to that < 3 > < 3 New York June 26 William Hoey the actor famous as Old Hoss who broke down at Mt Clemens and who I gt er was brought to his I home in this city is suffering from acute paresis and It is thought he can only live a few weeks It is said he is penniless though he earned a great deal of money New York June 26 William F Hoey passed a bad night at the residence of his motherinlaw in this city He whistled and sang and went through several scenes of the part of Old Hoss which made him famcus His wife Helen French Is ill and her condition was made worse by the insane in-sane antics of her husband His physician phy-sician said today that he had not completed com-pleted ISth diagnosis l of the case but f fn fim was sure that it was a mental ailment that threatened to be permanent V 0 0 London June 6Ir Charles Froh man has returned from Paris and has completed all arrangements to become a London theatrical manager But his interests in the United States are so large that it is not pqsslble to give up I their management entirely Therefore Mr Frohman will divide his time between be-tween London and New York Mr Willard is so well pleased with I n his reception in America that he is fully determined to return there next season He Is now looking around for I I new pieces to take over with him and has about made up his mind to secure I The Physician with which Charles Wyndham made such a success this I season at the criterion tneatre He is 1 also thinking of adding The Princess and the Butterfly to his repertoire I Stage Whispers I Verdi is dangerously 111 He Is now 83 years of age i Lew Dockstader Is at the Orphcum i in ban Francisco I The Frawleys put on Shenandoah i last week witn great success Will Ingersoll Is leading man at the Columbia theater Wasmngton Toe European topic just now is the Parisian success 01 tne Italian actress hose Frank Carlyle once leading man for Fronman nas been engaged ror tae Alcazar Al-cazar ban rancisco I Victory Bateman opened in Frou Frou in uenver At tne opposition nouse Y alter awards appeared as tae Kajah Harold Russell has been nursing a rheumatic toot during tne past week lie imugnanuy oenles tne intimation of gout me Prisoner of Zenda with HacK ett and Miss Mannering In the leads ctiew a big audience in San Francisco last Monday night Both are somewhat adversely criticised by tne press |